Month: June 2017

Somos Las Mujeres Contra la Violación y nos oponemos a la extradición de Julian Assange

Somos Las Mujeres Contra la Violación y nos oponemos a la extradición de Julian Assange Durante décadas hemos hecho campañas para que se capture, inculpe y condene a los violadores. Pero la persecución de Assange es de carácter político. Katrin Axelsson y Lisa Longstaff del colectivo Las Mujeres Contra la Violación guardian.co.uk, jueves 23 de …

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Open Letter to Keir Starmer RE: Consultation on alleged false allegations of rape

Open Letter to Keir Starmer RE: Consultation on alleged false allegations of rape We strongly believe that the prosecution of women for alleged false allegations of rape is not in the public interest. This is because: ● It distracts from the true rape scandal that over 90% of rapists get away with it since 90% …

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Rape & Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre

Rape & Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre Rape & Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre   Our report chronicles a regime of predatory sexual abuse (including racist sexual abuse) since it opened and began accepting women and families in 2002.  It brings together the many allegations that have been reported to …

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The benefit cap is supporting state child abuse

The benefit cap is supporting state child abuse See WAR’s article by Lisa Longstaff The Guardian, Jan 2014, which connects benefit cuts with domestic violence and the state taking children from mothers. As a family brings a legal challenge to the £500 limit, the treatment of mothers in violent relationships is brought into sharp relief.